Invision

[natimage]

I just installed invisionPB for a new site that I just set up in my reseller's account. Since nameservers have not been changed with registrar yet, I had to find an alternative way to access and work on the site. SO...I edited my systems file "hosts" as described in another post, in order to make my machine find the site on my reseller account.

 

That works fine. I can access the site with no problems. When I try to access invision, the default invision "welcome" or "login" page (whatever you want to call it) comes up fine. However, when I try to click any link from that page, I get the error

 

No input file specified.

 

I uninstalled and reinstalled invision, but that didn't work. Any suggestions out there? Will I just have to wait to work on this until I can get the nameservers changed?

[natimage]

No thoughts...anybody??

[TCH-Don]

Tracy,

I just tried to visit my forum as

http://IP/~user/forum/

and while it will display, the links all point to the domain name.

I tried http://IP/~user/forum/admin.php

after login I see the domain name again.

So it looks like I am no help here.

Monday maybe I will try with a non existant domain account to see what I can find out.

[ranelar]

you will need to edit your conf_global.php file so that everything points to ip/~username/invision or whatever. I'm in the same situation as you, and that's what I'm doing right now.

[TCH-Don]

Thank You for that info, Thumbs Up

 

 

(adding that to my notes )

[ranelar]

just make sure to keep a copy of the original so you can easily go back to what it's supposed to be once your nameservers are resolved.

[TCH-Don]

Its not a bad idea to download the entire folder that your forum is in

so you have both the backup and can easily examine the files.

[natimage]

Thanks for the advice! I will work on that when I get back home tomorrow from the "Family Weekend". Thumbs Up

[TCH-Don]

Here is what I did, and the admin works fine.

 

 

To access your forum by IP address, including admin,

copy conf_global.php from your forum folder to your computer.

save on your computer twice

once as conf_global.php

and the second as conf_global.php_original

 

in the conf_global.php

replace http://www.domain.com/

with http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/ get the ip from your welcome e-mail

 

 

 

examples

 

// line 27

// original version $INFO['board_url'] = 'http://www.domain.com/forum';

$INFO['board_url'] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/forum';

 

// line 68

// original version $INFO['html_url'] = 'http://www.domain.com/forum/html';

$INFO['html_url'] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/forum/html';

 

// line 130

// original version $INFO['upload_url'] = 'http://www.domain.com/forum/uploads';

$INFO['upload_url'] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/forum/uploads';

 

After propagation

copy the conf_global.php_original back to your forum folder as conf_global.php

Edited May 10, 2004 by TCH-Don

[annie]

Here's what I did when i got fed up waiting for my ISP to get the new DNS data:

 

I installed a host file on my own computer with the new IP number for my site.

 

Worked immediately!

[natimage]

Thanks, Don. That will make things go nice and smooth when I get home this evening!

 

Annie...thanks for the comment. I actually have already done this, and while I can access the website perfectly, Invision had a problem logging in!

[natimage]

Well...I got home and tried editting the conf_global file as instructed, but it is not working. I'm getting 404 errors now. Here is a sample...maybe I'm missing something that I just can't see...

 

>$INFO['board_url'] 	 =	'http://64.246.56.60/~tsmith/invision';

 

I changed all the board_url instances.

Edited May 10, 2004 by natimage

[TCH-Don]

Tracy the IP

http://64.246.56.60/~tsmith/

does not work,

are you sure that is the ip?

 

 

 

 

 

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that is the IP for server 27

Edited May 11, 2004 by TCH-Don

[natimage]

Yes that's the correct IP...maybe I should have mentioned that it is a reseller account??

 

The incorrect part, however, was the username. I was thinking of the username for Invision...not the cpanel username.

 

I changed that out and it works like a charm!! Thank you for all the help...time for me to get to work.

[TCH-Don]

Great!

Glad it works,

I am adding this to my notes on IPB

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tutorial

Invision Power Board Hosting Modification Help!, learn how to control your forums!

has been updated.

 

Thanks for all who helped.

Edited May 11, 2004 by TCH-Don